The Richmond Virginia Street Art Festival is under way, now through Sunday, April 15, with more than a dozen national street artists creating an outdoor gallery along Richmond's James River Power Plant Building and Floodwall...

'Photography holds all the intrinsic values of all the other arts; but it is the foundation of the origins of existence. My creations are the exploration of my inner facilities; in the pursuit of contemporary knowledge expressing “original thoughts”. States Neil Craver "Nothing can exist without the photon, and every aspect is controlled by it’s usage" Neil Craver's collection of Underwater Nude Rock Quarry shots are one of my all time favorites. Gorgeous.

Blaine Fontana currently lives and works in Portland, Oregon. Imbuing his vision with the divine symbolism of religious myths, worldly folklore and current social dynamics, his works contain a kind of shamanic exploration of meaning that recognizes the totemic quality and power of the image. Also a long time Arbor Collective artist, Fontana discusses his use of sustainable materials in his work. This video is the first in a series of artist profile pieces to be released throughout 2012.

'The illustrations were inspired by the myths and legends of Native American culture; confusing the bad spirits by not being able to pin point the body to infiltrate the mind. I was also inspired by their use of peyote and transcendent spiritual visions.' Abbey Watkins on her Confuse the Spirit series.

Andrea Rossi was born in South Florida and currently lives in Baltimore, Maryland. Rossi is a student at the Maryland Institute College of Art, earning her BFA in Illustration with a minor in Art History. Unsurprisingly, her work has been honored by the Society of Illustrators Student Competition in 2012 and she continues to expand on her wildly entertaining narrative illustration style..

In association with the near future opening of the Denver Animal Shelter, comes a 20-foot stainless steel dog sculpture made of 90,000 dog tags. Created by artists, Laura Haddad and Tom Drugan, the massive dog was commissioned with the help of the Denver Public Art Program. View the video to see the process of it’s creation and installation.

One of the best exhibitions we have seen in quite some time is the Lucian Freud Portraits exhibition being held at the National Portrait Gallery in London. Freud was one of the most famed and talented painters of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. His portraiture is unprecedented in its intensely psychological attention to detail.

We can't believe this hasn't been done before, and at least to our knowledge, it hasn't been done better than UK-artist Kyle Bean's egg shell sculpture that makes an incredibly detailed chicken. Very good work indeed.